Spanish Colonial St. Augustine: A Resource for Teachers http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=teachers&m=hitplans#elementary This website provides an abundance of knowledge for teachers to access different lesson plans and resources regarding St. Augustine. I specifically found the lesson plans to be of great help, as they are very detailed and organized.
St. Augustine For Kids http://www.staugustine4kids.com/activities.shtml This website is kid-friendly and can be used to have students navigate to gather their own information that may be provided on a worksheet. There are numerous links the students can click on that provide an illustration and information on that picture.
Golf Coast Tour & Travel http://www.goldcoastfun.com/history.htm This website is for a travel corporation that provides all of the facts about St. Augustine anyone would want to know. By clicking the different links, the page navigates to other websites that have even more information on the city of St. Augustine.
St. Augustine History http://www.oldcity.com/history-information.cfm This website provides information on St. Augustine, one of the oldest cities in Florida. I would use this website in a classroom by providing a fill in the blank worksheet and having the students take a virtual tour to find the answers. This website also provides elaborate pictures that are good accommodations for ESOL students.
Florida’s Historic Places: St. Augustine http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/augustine/augustine.htm The bulk of this website is designed around important dates that happened in St. Augustine. With this website, I would have my students create a timeline of these important events. There is a large quantity of valuable information on this site.
Literature List
A World Explorer: Ponce de Leon Author: Wyatt Blassingame
This book is designed for young readers to introduce the renowned explorer, Ponce de Leon. This book has an abundance of pictures and is an easy read. I would more than likely use this book for a whole group read aloud.
St. Augustine on my Mind Author: Ken Laffal
This book provides many pictures that were actually taken by the author in the beautiful city of St. Augustine. Each picture has an explanation of where and when it was taken. This book could be used for students to see St. Augustine in real-life form.
Florida: Social Studies for a Changing World Author: Jane Gilmer Landers
This is a textbook that has information about St. Augustine. For example, the population of the city, location, landmarks, popular places, etc. This textbook would be great to incorporate into any lesson regarding St. Augustine and Spanish Florida.
African Americans in Florida Author: Maxine D. Jones and Kevin M. McCarthy
This book takes a look into St. Augustine from another light, dealing with slavery and The Civil Rights Movement. This book would be a great reference to integrate into a lesson because slavery is a topic most fourth grade Social Studies topics include and this book ties St. Augustine into that topic.
Pictorial History of Florida Author: Richard J. Bowe
This book explores different parts of Florida using pictures and very detailed explanations. This book particularly explains the history of St. Augustine and the elaborate pictures in the text.
Internet Search
Leah Blaty
Viva Florida http://www.vivaflorida.org/index.lasso?section=EN
This website contains six internal weblinks: History, Explore Florida, Biographies, Education, Kids Colony, and Press. Within the six links, there are detailed historical information, pictures, interactive maps, activities, and videos that provide detailed information of Florida’s history . In addition, the website provides an interactive timeline and multimedia gallery. In the interactive timeline, there are additional links that offer more in-depth information on the particular period that is being represented. In addition, the interactive timeline includes 1200 B.C. to present day Florida.
St. Augustine for Kids http://www.staugustine4kids.com/
This website is divided into six internal links: Exploring a New World, Building the Oldest City, Fighting for Independence, Entering the Modern Age, Preparing for Tomorrow, and Teachers and Parents. Under each link, information, visuals, and activities are provided that is specific to the links. Then, in the Teachers and Parents link there is a brief summary of the purpose for the website, and a library of PDF files that contain the lesson plans that were presented throughout the other links.
Florida Kids http://www.flheritage.com/KIDS/history.cfm
This website is linked with the Florida Division of Historical Resources. In this website there are brief historical summaries that depict Florida history ranging from early inhabitants to the space age. Each section contains visuals representing that era in history. In addition, the website contains a side bar with additional links to state symbols, Seminole history, the capital, Florida governors, and Florida quick facts.
Florida History Internet Center http://www.floridahistory.org/
This website presents numerous internal weblinks that contain information about Florida’s history, historical maps, social history, photo tours, museums, writers, and fun facts. In addition, the website contains an interactive Florida history textbook with photographs, maps, sample questions, and workbook pages.
This website contains five internal links, which are Florida photographical collections, Online Classroom, Highlights of Florida History, Collections, and Exhibits. Many of the links contain historical summaries, photos, timelines, and videos. In addition, the Online Classroom provides teachers with lesson plans pertaining to Florida’s history.
Author: Kelley G. Weitzel
This book blends alternating factual and fictional chapters. The factual chapters contain maps, historical engravings, and modern illustrations. Then, the fictional chapters are narrated by Tenerife, a fictional Timucua Indian kidnapped by the Spanish as a child, whose tales about Florida’s native cultures reflect his own escape and adventures on his journey home.
America’s Real First Thanksgiving Author: Robyn Gioia
This historical picture book presents an account of the first Thanksgiving celebration held in St. Augustine, Florida, along with historical events preceding this occasion. In addition, this book contains illustrations and photographs with detailed captions, a timeline, a glossary, and a recipe for Cocido, which is a type of bean soup that was served at the first Thanksgiving. There is a teacher’s manual to accompany the book.
Ponce De Leon: Juan Ponce De Leon Searches for the Fountain of Youth
Author: Ann Heinrichs
This book is a biography of the Spanish explorer who first came to the New World with Columbus, went on to become governor of Puerto Rico, and later came to Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth. In addition, this book contains photographs, drawings, maps, timelines, and highlighted words with a corresponding glossary.
Life in St. Augustine
Author: Sally Senzell Isaac
This nonfiction book provides geographic and historical information regarding life in St. Augustine, Florida, from 1513 to 1845, which includes the housing, food, clothing, schools, and everyday activities of the settlers, as well as their interactions with native people. In addition, this book provides photographs, drawings, as well as a recipe for typical food eaten during this period.
Voices in St. Augustine Author: Jane R. Wood Illustrator: Elizabeth A. Voils
This historical fiction book is about a thirteen-year-old boy named Joey Johnson. Joey hears voices, which end up leading him on an adventure to discover his connections to the past. The setting of the book takes place in past and present St. Augustine, Florida.
Thomas Englert
Internet Search/ Literature List
SSE 3312
Internet Sources: 1.St. Augustine Links.com St. Augustine: History of the Nation's Oldest City http://www.staugustinelinks.com/st-augustine-history.asp
This website gives great information of how St. Augustine was founded. This website also gives great information on the different settlers and interesting historical information about how St. Augustine is the Nations oldest city.
2. Lightener Museum http://www.lightnermuseum.org/main_lightner.html
This website gives online access to the St. Augustine museum. It is fabulous because it allows students to see pictures of items from the museum as well as information.
3. Festivals and Special Events in Historic St. Augustine, Florida http://www.staugustineinfo.com/
This website allows access to the important events that take place in the different months in our nations oldest city of St. Augustine.
5. Discoveries…America Florida
Jim Wyatt/ Movie
This movie shows Florida’s key historical sites. The key sites include Florida keys, the Kennedy Space Center and St. Augustine.
Children’s Literature:
1.Americas First REAL Thanksgiving: St. Augustine, Florida, September 8, 1565
By: Robyn Gloia
This is a great piece of children’s literature that talks about and shows pictures of the first Thanksgiving in St. Augustine.
2. The Houses of St. Augustine:1565-1821
By: Albert Manucy
This book talks about the different way houses and other buildings were built when old time St. Augustine was created.
3. The Majesty of St. Augustine
By: Steven Brooke
This book allows us to see the beauty of St. Augustine Architecture from the oldest city in the United States.
4. Trail from St. Augustine
By: Lee Gramling
This book is a historical fiction piece that talks about how different people settled into Florida by the Gulf Coast and then eventually into St. Augustine Florida.
5. The Settling of St. Augustine
By: Janet Riehecky
This book tells us about the settlement into St. Augustine and how or why it happened.
6. St. Augustine, Florida: Past and Present
by Donald D. Spencer
This book allows us to see St. Augustine and how it evolved over the years. This is shown through different post cards and photographs of the special places in St. Augustine.
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Internet Sites/Literature List
By: Tanja Bock Internet Sites: St. Augustine for Kids http://www.staugustine4kids.com/activities.shtml
This website has lesson plans for teachers, and information with timelines for students. They also have activities that students can download and print out.
Florida Museum of Natural History http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/staugustine/index.htm
This website has information and timelines that teachers can use to help teach students about the history of St. Augustine.
Saint Augustine Lighthouse and Museum http://www.staugustinelighthouse.com/education.php
This website has education resources on St. Augustine and the lighthouse as well as information on school tours and camps. If you are unable to visit the lighthouse the site has a virtual tour of the lighthouse that you can see from the website. http://www.staugustinelighthouse.com/edu_kidzone.php
This website has games and print out about the lighthouse for kids to do.
State of Florida Division of Historical Resources http://www.flheritage.com/kids/history.cfm
This websites is a good informational site on the history of Florida (including St. Augustine and more). It contains great Florida facts as well as information on state symbols and the capital.
For Kids www.nps.gov/foma/forkids/index.htm
Great websites by the National Park Service on Fort Matanzas the not only gives great information on the monument but has activities for teachers to use as well..
Literature List:
St. Augustine Under Three Star Published 1925 s
This is a brief look at the history of Florida as it relates to St. Augustine, with a Pictorial tour of Fort Marion (the Castillo de San Marcos).
Juan Ponce D0e Leon: And the Search for the Fountain of Youth (Explorers of the New World)
By: Daniel E. Harmon This is a biography of the Spanish explorer and governor of Cuba, who attempted to find the Fountain of Youth in the New World.
Pelican Pete
By Hugh and Frances Keiser
This is a picture book created about a pelican’s journey through St. Augustine.
St. Augustine Oldest City
by Linda Wade
This is an introduction to the history and present-day attractions of the oldest city in the United States.
Juan Ponce de Leon (History Maker Bio Series) by Lerner Publishing This is a biography on Ponce de Leon who is an explorer who wanted to discover new lands.
Internet Search
Spanish Colonial St. Augustine: A Resource for Teachers
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?s=teachers&m=hitplans#elementary
This website provides an abundance of knowledge for teachers to access different lesson plans and resources regarding St. Augustine. I specifically found the lesson plans to be of great help, as they are very detailed and organized.
St. Augustine For Kids
http://www.staugustine4kids.com/activities.shtml
This website is kid-friendly and can be used to have students navigate to gather their own information that may be provided on a worksheet. There are numerous links the students can click on that provide an illustration and information on that picture.
Golf Coast Tour & Travel
http://www.goldcoastfun.com/history.htm
This website is for a travel corporation that provides all of the facts about St. Augustine anyone would want to know. By clicking the different links, the page navigates to other websites that have even more information on the city of St. Augustine.
St. Augustine History
http://www.oldcity.com/history-information.cfm
This website provides information on St. Augustine, one of the oldest cities in Florida. I would use this website in a classroom by providing a fill in the blank worksheet and having the students take a virtual tour to find the answers. This website also provides elaborate pictures that are good accommodations for ESOL students.
Florida’s Historic Places: St. Augustine
http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/augustine/augustine.htm
The bulk of this website is designed around important dates that happened in St. Augustine. With this website, I would have my students create a timeline of these important events. There is a large quantity of valuable information on this site.
Literature List
A World Explorer: Ponce de Leon
Author: Wyatt Blassingame
This book is designed for young readers to introduce the renowned explorer, Ponce de Leon. This book has an abundance of pictures and is an easy read. I would more than likely use this book for a whole group read aloud.
St. Augustine on my Mind
Author: Ken Laffal
This book provides many pictures that were actually taken by the author in the beautiful city of St. Augustine. Each picture has an explanation of where and when it was taken. This book could be used for students to see St. Augustine in real-life form.
Florida: Social Studies for a Changing World
Author: Jane Gilmer Landers
This is a textbook that has information about St. Augustine. For example, the population of the city, location, landmarks, popular places, etc. This textbook would be great to incorporate into any lesson regarding St. Augustine and Spanish Florida.
African Americans in Florida
Author: Maxine D. Jones and Kevin M. McCarthy
This book takes a look into St. Augustine from another light, dealing with slavery and The Civil Rights Movement. This book would be a great reference to integrate into a lesson because slavery is a topic most fourth grade Social Studies topics include and this book ties St. Augustine into that topic.
Pictorial History of Florida
Author: Richard J. Bowe
This book explores different parts of Florida using pictures and very detailed explanations. This book particularly explains the history of St. Augustine and the elaborate pictures in the text.
Internet Search
Leah Blaty
Viva Florida
http://www.vivaflorida.org/index.lasso?section=EN
This website contains six internal weblinks: History, Explore Florida, Biographies, Education, Kids Colony, and Press. Within the six links, there are detailed historical information, pictures, interactive maps, activities, and videos that provide detailed information of Florida’s history . In addition, the website provides an interactive timeline and multimedia gallery. In the interactive timeline, there are additional links that offer more in-depth information on the particular period that is being represented. In addition, the interactive timeline includes 1200 B.C. to present day Florida.
St. Augustine for Kids
http://www.staugustine4kids.com/
This website is divided into six internal links: Exploring a New World, Building the Oldest City, Fighting for Independence, Entering the Modern Age, Preparing for Tomorrow, and Teachers and Parents. Under each link, information, visuals, and activities are provided that is specific to the links. Then, in the Teachers and Parents link there is a brief summary of the purpose for the website, and a library of PDF files that contain the lesson plans that were presented throughout the other links.
Florida Kids
http://www.flheritage.com/KIDS/history.cfm
This website is linked with the Florida Division of Historical Resources. In this website there are brief historical summaries that depict Florida history ranging from early inhabitants to the space age. Each section contains visuals representing that era in history. In addition, the website contains a side bar with additional links to state symbols, Seminole history, the capital, Florida governors, and Florida quick facts.
Florida History Internet Center
http://www.floridahistory.org/
This website presents numerous internal weblinks that contain information about Florida’s history, historical maps, social history, photo tours, museums, writers, and fun facts. In addition, the website contains an interactive Florida history textbook with photographs, maps, sample questions, and workbook pages.
Florida Memory
http://www.floridamemory.com/
This website contains five internal links, which are Florida photographical collections, Online Classroom, Highlights of Florida History, Collections, and Exhibits. Many of the links contain historical summaries, photos, timelines, and videos. In addition, the Online Classroom provides teachers with lesson plans pertaining to Florida’s history.
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Literature List
Journeys with Florida’s Indians
Author: Kelley G. WeitzelThis book blends alternating factual and fictional chapters. The factual chapters contain maps, historical engravings, and modern illustrations. Then, the fictional chapters are narrated by Tenerife, a fictional Timucua Indian kidnapped by the Spanish as a child, whose tales about Florida’s native cultures reflect his own escape and adventures on his journey home.
America’s Real First ThanksgivingAuthor: Robyn Gioia
This historical picture book presents an account of the first Thanksgiving celebration held in St. Augustine, Florida, along with historical events preceding this occasion. In addition, this book contains illustrations and photographs with detailed captions, a timeline, a glossary, and a recipe for Cocido, which is a type of bean soup that was served at the first Thanksgiving. There is a teacher’s manual to accompany the book.
Ponce De Leon: Juan Ponce De Leon Searches for the Fountain of Youth
Author: Ann Heinrichs
This book is a biography of the Spanish explorer who first came to the New World with Columbus, went on to become governor of Puerto Rico, and later came to Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth. In addition, this book contains photographs, drawings, maps, timelines, and highlighted words with a corresponding glossary.
Life in St. AugustineAuthor: Sally Senzell Isaac
This nonfiction book provides geographic and historical information regarding life in St. Augustine, Florida, from 1513 to 1845, which includes the housing, food, clothing, schools, and everyday activities of the settlers, as well as their interactions with native people. In addition, this book provides photographs, drawings, as well as a recipe for typical food eaten during this period.
Voices in St. AugustineAuthor: Jane R. Wood Illustrator: Elizabeth A. Voils
This historical fiction book is about a thirteen-year-old boy named Joey Johnson. Joey hears voices, which end up leading him on an adventure to discover his connections to the past. The setting of the book takes place in past and present St. Augustine, Florida.
Thomas Englert
Internet Search/ Literature List
SSE 3312
Internet Sources:
1.St. Augustine Links.com
St. Augustine: History of the Nation's Oldest City
http://www.staugustinelinks.com/st-augustine-history.asp
This website gives great information of how St. Augustine was founded. This website also gives great information on the different settlers and interesting historical information about how St. Augustine is the Nations oldest city.
2. Lightener Museum
http://www.lightnermuseum.org/main_lightner.html
This website gives online access to the St. Augustine museum. It is fabulous because it allows students to see pictures of items from the museum as well as information.
3. Festivals and Special Events in Historic St. Augustine, Florida
http://www.staugustineinfo.com/
This website allows access to the important events that take place in the different months in our nations oldest city of St. Augustine.
4. St. Augustine Web Quest http://schools.firn.edu/websites/volusia/indian_river_elementary_school/classrooms/jennifer_bonamo/StAugustineWebquest.html
This website gives a full blown web Quest on St. Augustine along with the websites to use for this assignment.
5. Discoveries…America Florida
Jim Wyatt/ Movie
This movie shows Florida’s key historical sites. The key sites include Florida keys, the Kennedy Space Center and St. Augustine.
Children’s Literature:
1.Americas First REAL Thanksgiving: St. Augustine, Florida, September 8, 1565
By: Robyn Gloia
This is a great piece of children’s literature that talks about and shows pictures of the first Thanksgiving in St. Augustine.
2. The Houses of St. Augustine:1565-1821
By: Albert Manucy
This book talks about the different way houses and other buildings were built when old time St. Augustine was created.
3. The Majesty of St. Augustine
By: Steven Brooke
This book allows us to see the beauty of St. Augustine Architecture from the oldest city in the United States.
4. Trail from St. Augustine
By: Lee Gramling
This book is a historical fiction piece that talks about how different people settled into Florida by the Gulf Coast and then eventually into St. Augustine Florida.
5. The Settling of St. Augustine
By: Janet Riehecky
This book tells us about the settlement into St. Augustine and how or why it happened.
6. St. Augustine, Florida: Past and Present
by Donald D. Spencer
This book allows us to see St. Augustine and how it evolved over the years. This is shown through different post cards and photographs of the special places in St. Augustine.
the content of your page here.
Internet Sites/Literature List
By: Tanja Bock
Internet Sites:
St. Augustine for Kids
http://www.staugustine4kids.com/activities.shtml
This website has lesson plans for teachers, and information with timelines for students. They also have activities that students can download and print out.
Florida Museum of Natural History
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/staugustine/index.htm
This website has information and timelines that teachers can use to help teach students about the history of St. Augustine.
Saint Augustine Lighthouse and Museum
http://www.staugustinelighthouse.com/education.php
This website has education resources on St. Augustine and the lighthouse as well as information on school tours and camps. If you are unable to visit the lighthouse the site has a virtual tour of the lighthouse that you can see from the website.
http://www.staugustinelighthouse.com/edu_kidzone.php
This website has games and print out about the lighthouse for kids to do.
State of Florida Division of Historical Resources
http://www.flheritage.com/kids/history.cfm
This websites is a good informational site on the history of Florida (including St. Augustine and more). It contains great Florida facts as well as information on state symbols and the capital.
Fort Matanzas National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
http://home.nps.gov/foma/
For Kids
www.nps.gov/foma/forkids/index.htm
Great websites by the National Park Service on Fort Matanzas the not only gives great information on the monument but has activities for teachers to use as well..
Literature List:
St. Augustine Under Three Star
Published 1925 s
This is a brief look at the history of Florida as it relates to St. Augustine, with a Pictorial tour of Fort Marion (the Castillo de San Marcos).
Juan Ponce D0e Leon: And the Search for the Fountain of Youth (Explorers of the New World)
By: Daniel E. HarmonThis is a biography of the Spanish explorer and governor of Cuba, who attempted to find the Fountain of Youth in the New World.
Pelican Pete
By Hugh and Frances Keiser
This is a picture book created about a pelican’s journey through St. Augustine.
St. Augustine Oldest City
by Linda Wade
This is an introduction to the history and present-day attractions of the oldest city in the United States.
Juan Ponce de Leon (History Maker Bio Series)by Lerner Publishing
This is a biography on Ponce de Leon who is an explorer who wanted to discover new lands.